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The Power Vertical is a blog and podcast for Russia wonks and Kremlin watchers by Brian Whitmore. It covers emerging and developing trends in Russian politics, shining a spotlight on the high-stakes power struggles, machinations, and clashing interests that shape Kremlin policy today.

Host and Eurasia Center Senior Fellow Brian Whitmore invites guest experts to deliver their insights and analysis in this weekly podcast. The Atlantic Council and the Charles T. McDowell Center for Global Studies at the University of Texas at Arlington co-sponsor this production.

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The Eurasia Center’s mission is to enhance transatlantic cooperation in promoting stability, democratic values and prosperity in Eurasia, from Eastern Europe and Turkey in the West to the Caucasus, Russia and Central Asia in the East.

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In the News

Aug 18, 2016

Farkas Joins MSNBC’s Morning Joe to Discuss the Trump-Putin Relationship

By Evelyn Farkas

Russia

In the News

Aug 18, 2016

Aslund in The American Interest: Why We Need Kremlinology Again

By Anders Aslund

Read the full article here.

Russia

New Atlanticist

Aug 18, 2016

Two Surprising Proposals for Peace in the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict

By Matthew J. Bryza

It has been a long time since I have sensed any cause for optimism about the prospects of a political settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Indeed, Armenia and Azerbaijan nearly resumed full-scale war in April, when their troops clashed along the line of contact with a level of ferocity unprecedented during the twenty-two years since […]

Russia The Caucasus

In the News

Aug 18, 2016

Cohen Joins VOA Russia to Discuss the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the 1991 Soviet Coup d’Etat

By Ariel Cohen

Watch the full interview here.

Russia

Defense Industrialist

Aug 17, 2016

On battlecruisers, blockades, and Donald Trump

By James Hasik

Whatever administration takes office, the US needs to better match its procurement plans to its operational strategies. Writing this week for Chatham House, Julianne Smith, Rachel Rizzo and Adam Twardowski find that one military topic on which Donald Trump may offer views significantly differing from those of the other presidential candidates is procurement. In their […]

China Conflict

In the News

Aug 16, 2016

Shaffer Interviewed by VOA Russia on Russia-Turkey Relations

By Brenda Shaffer

Read the full article here.

Russia Turkey
US Naval Academy exercise site, April 12, 2016

NATOSource

Aug 15, 2016

Six Steps the US and its Allies Should Take to Prevent Russian Cyber Attacks

By Franklin D. Kramer, Robert Butler, and Catherine Lotrionte, US News and World Report

The Russian cyber-hacking of the Democratic National Committee, as reported by multiple cybersecurity organizations, is only the latest unacceptable and unlawful activity by that state.

Cybersecurity NATO

UkraineAlert

Aug 15, 2016

Why Putin Turns the Heat Up on Ukraine Now

By James J. Coyle

Russian President Vladimir Putin may be preparing a new offensive in Ukraine. Russia has prepared an excuse for a military incursion to connect Crimea with rebel-held areas of the Donbas in eastern Ukraine. Fighting along the corridor has already heated up; the Ukrainian military reports that on the night of August 8 more than 200 […]

Russia Ukraine
Artillery of the 2nd Taman Motorized Rifle Division

NATOSource

Aug 15, 2016

Are Russia’s Military Advances a Problem for NATO?

By Jonathan Marcus, BBC

In Ukraine, the Russians have proved adept in many of the disciplines of modern high-intensity warfare.

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UkraineAlert

Aug 15, 2016

Why Peace Is Impossible with Putin

By Alexander J. Motyl

Peace in Europe is impossible as long as Vladimir Putin remains Russia’s leader. As both the biggest obstacle to peace and the key source of potential war, Putin has become the main threat to Russia’s neighbors and the West. But what, exactly, motivates him? Analysts are divided over the reasons for Putin’s foreign policy moves. […]

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